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Email Alerting Services: Databases and Journals
How would you like to receive alerts when new items are published that relate to your area of research or even cite your work? This webpage discusses services of this kind and how to use them.
These services fall under two broad groups. Many of the library's databases include alerting services. Other alerting services are tied to sites associated with journals and/or their publishers.
The library may or may not provide electronic access to, or own the print version of, materials listed in an email alert. Check ASA to determine if the library has the material. If not, consult the resources under the "Interlibrary Loan" category on the library homepage.
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The library's list of databases includes some that alert you when they add new records that satisfy the search criteria you specify, which might include (depending on the database) a subject you specify, or a paper for which you want to receive alerts about citing articles. Here are examples, for just a few databases, of how you can set up alerts within library databases.
While some databases do not provide this alerting capability, they may enable you to save a search that you can manually run at a later time. Check the help or faqs of a database to see if it provides this capability. Here is an example.
You may contact your subject librarian for assistance in setting up an alert or saved searches.
Details for setting up email alerts, whether for tables of contents or items that satisfy user-specified searches, are available at a variety of different types of website. Below is a list of these types with examples.
You may contact your subject librarian for assistance in setting up an alert, or to identify websites that are specific to your subject area of interest.
Note: Not included here is a listing of RSS feeds, such as those described at this University of Chicago Press site. (See "content alerts". ) However, people interested in setting up RSS feeds may want to look for it in the sites listed below.
Other Resources Listing Email Alerting Services
Check these webpages for other sources of information about alerting services possibly not covered above.